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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

Subjects : clep, literature
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means.






2. The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words.






3. The difference between what the character or the reader expects what the character or the reader expects and what actually happens.






4. A figure of speech in which an abstract concept or an absent or imaginary person is directly addressed.






5. The voice an actor takes on to tell the story in a particular work.






6. The conversation of characters in a literary work.






7. A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter.






8. A statement that seems to be contrdictory but is actually true.






9. An eight-line unit - which may constitue a stanza; or a section of a poem - as in the octave of a sonnet.






10. A lyrical poem that laments the dead.






11. A poem of thirty-nine lines and written in iambic pentameter.






12. The traditional beliefs and customsof a group of people that have been passed down orally.






13. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play.






14. A nineteen-line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition.






15. A line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter.






16. A word that closely resembles the sound that the word is supposed to make.






17. Two unaccented syllables followed by an accented syllable.






18. Refers to how a piece of literature is written rather than to what is actually said.






19. A customary feature of a literary work - such as the use of a chorus in Greek tragedy - the inclusion of an explicit moral in a fable - or the use of a particular rhyme scheme in a villanelle.






20. As the conflict(s) develop and the characters attempt to revolve those conflicts - suspense builds.






21. Then narrator is a character in the story and tells the reader his/her story using the pronoun 'I'.






22. What a story or play is about.






23. A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words.






24. A figure of speech involving exaggeration.






25. A metrical foot represented by two stressed syllables.






26. The use of symbols in literature to convey meaning.






27. The person who 'tells' the story.






28. An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work.






29. A recurring pattern found in a work or works of literature; the pattern is usually representative of something else.






30. A figure of speech in which two things are compared using 'like' or 'as'.






31. The point after the climax where the action begins to drop off and the events of the plot become clear or are explained in some way.






32. The recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse.






33. A short story that teaches a moral or a religious lesson.






34. Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme.






35. A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next.






36. The point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected direction for the protagonist.






37. A technique designed to enact social change by using wit to rificule ideas - customs or institutions.






38. The way people speak in various parts of the country or around the world.






39. An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.






40. Poetic meters such as trochaic and oactylic that move or fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable.






41. A historical or literary reference to a person - place - thing - or event that the reader is expected to recognize.






42. A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas - characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style.






43. A six-line unit of verse constituting a stanza or section of a poem.






44. Words spoken by one character in a play - either directly to the audience or to another character - that the other characters supposedly do not hear.






45. The vantage point from which the writer tells the story.






46. The point at which a character understands his/her situation as it really is.






47. A brief witty poem - often satirical.






48. The measured pattern of rhyhtmic accents in poems.






49. A character who contrsts and parallels the main character in a play or story.






50. Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or story.